What an absolute breath of fresh air this show is! Loved it! Jenna's performance is superb, and the way its integrated into modern society works very well. What a shame there are only 8 episodes, I could easily sit through another 8 😁

Vastly overrated. This is basically just a Nancy Drew, Veronica Mars style murder mystery, but placed in a supernatural school. If you're a 30-40-something year old looking to revisit the Addams Family for some creepy capers and what-not. This isn't for you. This is written for alt-teens who grew up on Disney Channel movies and are now at the point in life where they are trying to rebel. The only thing here for the older crowd is Christina Ricci popping up in a new role. The show is entirely predictable from the moment the "Hyde" (monster) is introduced. Ask yourself, why are certain character 1 and 2 so prominent in the story? What are they seriously offering?... Oh, it's because they're the bad guy and whoever are the bad guys at the start obviously won't end up being so. There are zero surprises here. Despite the world it's set in, werewolves, sirens etc., it's entirely unimaginative and lacking in any real depth. Wednesday is just a 15/16 year old kid trying to be a detective and sticking her nose in where she has no business. Everyone keeps telling her to go away and stop and she is just annoying as anything. She also just isn't creepy and at all threatening like Christina Ricci was in the 90s. Jenna Ortega seems to act like she's watched one too many movies of Hollywood depicting an autistic kid and rolled it all into one reclusive bundle. It doesn't help that the script is bad and cheesey to be fair to her but again, she's just a kid devoid of giving a crap... with some one liners thrown in to make her sound like she's threatening or creepy here and there just to remind you she's Wednesday Addams and not Veronica Mars. I fell asleep three times trying to watch through some of the middle episodes. Oh... and the CGI on the Hyde monster. HORRIBLE. So cartoon. If you want to be reminded "this is definitely not realistic", that CGI covers it off nicely for you.

love,love,love better renew 4 to 5 seasons

Really enjoyed the series. It's probably one of the best Netflix shows I've watched. The story was really good pretty much from the start. We were hooked trying to figure out who the monster was. I also liked that they didn't do the normal and try throwing in some CW love triangle that ruins the entire show.

I absolutely hated this. They took everything queer and campy about the movies I grew up with and made it serious, edge lord BS. Wednesday literally goes torture someone for intel like she's working for the government. They completely misunderstood what made The Addams Family movies special - the way we were in their shoes to see the mundane and everyday facets of middle-class, white, suburban, cishet life as absurd and creepy through their eyes. Now Wednesday is at a school with other "outsiders" but all the "outsiders" just act like normal, spoiled, privileged kids? And there's so many mixed metaphors and wedged in wokeness, it felt like the script came straight from JK Rowling's Twitter feed. Werewolf is like puberty but also like being gay? But the girl we follow isn't gay? But her mom wants to send her to werewolf 'conversion therapy?' WTF is happening. I didn't like Ortega as Wednesday at all, though I generally otherwise like her and was initially excited by her casting. I think directing and the script are largely be to blame. Her affect was too flat, and her dialogue was straight up cringe in several places. Again, it's like all the people in charge of this had no idea what made Wednesday so special and watchable. This all made me wish we were getting Cristina Ricci playing Wednesday as a 40-something trying to keep her creepy roots while being a mom and wife. Or something. Just not this. Anything but this.